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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2011.27.12.017

Shear Strength Characteristics of Geo - Soluble - Materials  

Tran, M. Khoa (School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Park, Jung-Hee (School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Byun, Yong-Hoon (School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Shin, Ho-Sung (Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, Ulasn University)
Lee, Jong-Sub (School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.27, no.12, 2011 , pp. 17-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
A fabric of soil media may change due to certain factors such as dissolution of soluble particles, desiccation, and cementation. The fabric changes affect the mechanical behavior of soils. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of geo-material dissolution on shear strength. Experiments and numerical simulations are carried out by using a conventional direct shear and the discrete element method. The dissolution specimens are prepared with different volumetric salt fraction in sand soils. The dissolution of the specimens is implemented by saturating the salt-sand mixtures at different confining stresses in the experimental study or reducing the sizes of soluble particles in the numerical simulations. Experimental results show that the angle of shearing resistance decreases with the increase in the soluble particle content and the shearing behavior changes from dilative to contractive behavior. The numerical simulations exhibit that macro-behavior matches well with the experimental results. From the microscopic point of view, the particle dissolution produces a new fabric with the increase of local void, the reduction of contact number, the increase of shear contact forces, and the anisotropy of contact force chains compared with the initial fabric. The shearing behavior of the mixture after the particle dissolution is attributed to the above micro-behavior changes. This study demonstrates that the reduction of shearing resistance of geo-material dissolution should be considered during the design and construction of the foundation and earth-structures.
Keywords
DEM; Direct shear test; Dissolution; Fabric; Shear strength; Soluble mixtures;
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